330251 - Let DOM Inspector take external viewers

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, enhancement)

Description

[Allan Beaufour]

Right now DOM Inspector only supports its own viewers. It would be nice to support external viewers for custom content. SVG, MathML, XForms, whatever...

As far as I can see, to support it ViewerRegistry.js "just" needs to fixes:
1) Check for absolute URLs for viewers and load them from there instead of assuming "chrome://inspector/content/viewers/" + uri.

2) Figure out a mechanism for extending the viewer-registry.rdf, to let the external views to register themselves.

I do not know a lot about rdf, so I'm sure how to do 2) smartest...

Comment 1

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

Unassigning.  I decided to just start on DOMi 3 instead.  This will be possible there from the start.

Comment 2

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

See http://hg.mozilla.org/users/sevenspade_gmail.com/sepsis-inspector/file/25c3aea29884/resources/content/utils/viewerManager.jsm#l7

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(In reply to Colby Russell :crussell from comment #1)
> Unassigning.  I decided to just start on DOMi 3 instead.  This will be
> possible there from the start.

curious will it inherit all a11y stuff the DOMi has?

Comment 4

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

No.  It's inheriting nothing, since the interfaces between all the parts are different.  I did think about the possibility yesterday of having a compatibility layer.  I may or may not do that.

I'll bring up this topic at the next SeaMonkey status meeting (June 11) to see what the general feeling is with Neil and other SeaMonkeyers.  Sometime before then, I'll file a proper meta bug regarding the idea of DOMi 3 and update w.m.o wrt sepsis-inspector.  <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sepsis#Inspector>

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023